Re: How do I update all my installed packages from source?

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:57, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > Nothing jumped out in the user section of pgksrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt, trying:
> >
> >   $ cd pkgsrc/
> >   $ make update
> >
> > seems to want to build everything?
>
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_upgrade_packages/

So:
  'make update', invoked in a pkgsrc _package_ directory, ...
it isn't going to work.  And 'make replace'' is an unknown target at
the top level.

> Keep in mind that this page cautions about ABI issues with make replace.
> While true, they are easy to recover from.  make update if it hits a
> build failure can result in things being removed and not put back, and
> that is very much harder to recover from.
>